{"id":9263,"date":"2018-04-18T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2018-04-16T12:07:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:07:09","slug":"p-for-penny-sam-linked-as-emergency-contact-maybe-more-by-mary-h-k-choi-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=9263","title":{"rendered":"P for Penny & Sam, linked as Emergency Contact & maybe more, by Mary H.K. Choi (book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"bookCollege will be better than high school, of course.
\nLearning fiction writing<\/a> from an amazing author!
\nConnecting with Sam is…um …just text, okay?<\/p>\n

Her mom still acts and dresses like a teen, her new roommate Jude is vibrantly alive, so Penny is grateful for the quiet text life she has with Sam (who is 21, but somehow Jude’s former step-uncle). <\/p>\n

But can the Korean-American teen become brave enough to write like she should, go out with Jude and Mallory, actually visit Sam in person at the coffeehouse?<\/p>\n

And P is also for “plans busted to smithereens” as this debut novel told in alternating chapters by Penny and Sam (lots of texts) moved onto the New York Times<\/em> Bestsellers<\/a> list last week before our A-to-Z got to P!!<\/p>\n

Yes, Mary will be at the North Texas Teen Book Festival<\/a> on Saturday, 20 April 2018, and you should be there, too!<\/p>\n

Real life or by text?
\n**kmm<\/p>\n

Book info<\/strong>: Emergency Contact \/ Mary H.K. Choi. Simon Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

College will be better than high school, of course. Learning fiction writing from an amazing author! Connecting with Sam is…um …just text, okay? Her mom still acts and dresses like a teen, her new roommate Jude is vibrantly alive, so Penny is grateful for the quiet text life she has with Sam (who is 21, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,22,4,11,20,5,44,46,43,315,39,49,184,15,9,21,268,35,58,3,173],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-behavior","tag-belonging","tag-communication","tag-conflict","tag-coping","tag-friendship","tag-funny","tag-growing-up","tag-korean-american","tag-love","tag-memories","tag-mothers","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-stepfamily","tag-surprises","tag-technology","tag-teens","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/emergency-contact-9781534408968_hr.jpg?fit=1399%2C2105&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9468,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions\/9468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}